David Agranoff
@davidagranoff.bsky.social
Author of the Wonderland award nominated The Last Night to Kill Nazis. Postcards from a Dying World & Co-Host of the Dickheads podcasts about Philip K Dick and Sci Fi history. Columnist for Amazing Stories. Writes SF, Horror, and Bizarro. Vegan SxE
Wonderfully stupid best line. "Trust me, there is always a reason to kill someone."
A ★★★★ review of The Naked Gun (2025)
This was far better than I expected. Of course, it was stupid but it was supposed to be. Liam was perfect, Anderson had her jazz scene, I laughed plenty. That is all that matters.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Wonderfully stupid best line. "Trust me, there is always a reason to kill someone."
My top reads of the year includes @silviapark.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @riverssolomon.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @danielkraus.com Cody Goodfellow, @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social @dharlanwilson.bsky.social Links to the podcast discussion.
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Top Reads/ Favorites of 2025
Top/ Favorite reads of 2025 So this was an interesting reading year for me. I normally hit my reading goals with weeks to go but not th...
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December 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My top reads of the year includes @silviapark.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @riverssolomon.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @danielkraus.com Cody Goodfellow, @duncanbbarlow.bsky.social @dharlanwilson.bsky.social Links to the podcast discussion.
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I have about 20 pages left in the edits for the sequel to this book. I went to the James Cameron philosophy. Bigger and more emotional. Change the genre slightly while upping the stakes of the things that worked.Lots of dead nazis, the consequences of Nazi terror and much more spy craft.
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The Last Night to Kill Nazis|Paperback
The Fuhrer is Dead and the clock is ticking…The Last Night to Kill Nazis is an emotional rollercoaster of adventure, terror and revenge that explores one of the world's most evil events through ...
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December 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I have about 20 pages left in the edits for the sequel to this book. I went to the James Cameron philosophy. Bigger and more emotional. Change the genre slightly while upping the stakes of the things that worked.Lots of dead nazis, the consequences of Nazi terror and much more spy craft.
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Didn't need to be two and half hours long but my favorite of the knives out trilogy. I laughed a lot.
A ★★★★ review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
Certainly my favorite Knives out movie. The first 30 minutes were very funny. Interesting that Blanc didn't show up until 39 minutes in. Jeffrey Wright was awesome in about 45 seconds of screentime. T...
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December 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Didn't need to be two and half hours long but my favorite of the knives out trilogy. I laughed a lot.
So...I might be biased right now as I am editing a novel that takes place at the same time. Shannon and Crowe steal the show. The message is on the nose, I wish it was needed. IT can happen here. MAGA folks should see it, but I don't think they would get it.
A ★★★★★ review of Nuremberg (2025)
I might be currently biased as I am editing a final draft of a novel set at the same time, very close to the subject, but honestly. This is a great and important drama, while the message is a bit on t...
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December 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
So...I might be biased right now as I am editing a novel that takes place at the same time. Shannon and Crowe steal the show. The message is on the nose, I wish it was needed. IT can happen here. MAGA folks should see it, but I don't think they would get it.
Yes, I have a story in this collection. That being said it rules. @michaelallenrose.bsky.social did amazing work here.
Book Review: Stories From The Motel Sick edited by Michael Allen Rose
Stories From The Motel Sick edited by Michael Allen Rose ( Full review on the way) 388 pages, Paperback Published November 26, 2025, by Ro...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Yes, I have a story in this collection. That being said it rules. @michaelallenrose.bsky.social did amazing work here.
Short book review up for a very important book. 100 Greatest Horror books from Faust to Clive Barker, Fritz Lieber and Philip K. Dick represented.
Book Review: 100 Greatest Horror Books Edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
100 Greatest Horror Books Edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman 366 pages, Paperback Published May, 1998 by Running Press First publi...
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December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Short book review up for a very important book. 100 Greatest Horror books from Faust to Clive Barker, Fritz Lieber and Philip K. Dick represented.
New Podcast up! Top reads of 2025 with Marc Rothenberg. Retro Reads! top Non-fiction and best novels released this year!
Episode #192: Favorite/ Top Reads of 2025 W/ Marc Rothenberg
Podcast Episode · Postcards from a Dying World · 12/26/2025 · 3h 13m
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December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New Podcast up! Top reads of 2025 with Marc Rothenberg. Retro Reads! top Non-fiction and best novels released this year!
A WW II mission movie I had never seen. last 35 minutes carry the movie, with enough dead nazis to earn another star in the ratings.
A ★★★★ review of Against the Wind (1948)
I graded this on a bit of a curve, this is a WW II men on a mission movie I had never seen. I mean 3 years after the war...A team infiltrates occupied Paris to free a prisoner. The last half an hour i...
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December 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A WW II mission movie I had never seen. last 35 minutes carry the movie, with enough dead nazis to earn another star in the ratings.
Doing my part.
Here’s the 60 minutes story Bari Weiss got pulled from CBS about our illegal tactics against immigrants.
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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Doing my part.
The Craig era Bond re-watch continues slowly. The biggest problem with this one was how the action was shot.
A ★★★★ review of Quantum of Solace (2008)
I really enjoyed the story of this Bond film while re-watching all the Craig era. Funny some might accuse this movie of being woke, with Bond as your lead that of course is impossible. The problem com...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Craig era Bond re-watch continues slowly. The biggest problem with this one was how the action was shot.
Really good low-budget character-driven SF film. The world-building is really subtle and well done. Very Dickian themes.
A ★★★★★ review of The Assessment (2024)
In the low-budget SF film that stays away from society to keep the budget down...this is an excellent entry. Great cli-fi with excellent world-building themes and performances. There is many themes ad...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Really good low-budget character-driven SF film. The world-building is really subtle and well done. Very Dickian themes.
Watched this movie by the director of High Noon about a Spanish war vet lured back to Spain by his dying mother. Gregory Peck plays Spanish with the same effort he brings to Greek or British roles, as in he doesn't try.
A ★★★ review of Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Somehow missed this one from the director of High Noon, one of the weak links is Gregory Peck playing Spanish exactly how British by just being Gregory Peck. Interesting story of a Spanish war vet who...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Watched this movie by the director of High Noon about a Spanish war vet lured back to Spain by his dying mother. Gregory Peck plays Spanish with the same effort he brings to Greek or British roles, as in he doesn't try.
One of the things I wrote this year I am most proud of is this column about Jack London's 1907 anti-fascist science fiction novel and how it stacks up with other classics...
25th Century Five and Dime #11 Did Jack London write the SF novel of the Era? - Amazing Stories
Did Jack London write the SF novel of the Second Trump Presidency? One of the benefits of reading early science fiction is seeing the many ways these
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December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
One of the things I wrote this year I am most proud of is this column about Jack London's 1907 anti-fascist science fiction novel and how it stacks up with other classics...
Book review for this English translation of a French book about Philip K. DIck and Philosophy. Yet another David in PKD studies. This a short but important look at PKD's themes.
Book Review: Worlds Built to Fall Apart: Versions of Philip K. Dick by David Lapoujade, Erik Beranek (Translator)
This is the English translation edition of the French release L’Altération des mondes. Versions de Philip K. Dick by David Lapoujade Y...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Book review for this English translation of a French book about Philip K. DIck and Philosophy. Yet another David in PKD studies. This a short but important look at PKD's themes.
I know I will spend the next week defending Avatar and Cameron. To me this movie is a 3-hour argument for the magic of cinema and Science Fiction. How spoiled are we that we get a on-screen vision on par with the imagination and heart of Jack Vance's Dying Earth...
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A ★★★★★ review of Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
When G. Del Toro was interviewing Camerson for the DGA podcast he said, "I couldn't direct this movie if you threatened to shoot my family." The crowning achievement of this film is beating heart of n...
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December 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I know I will spend the next week defending Avatar and Cameron. To me this movie is a 3-hour argument for the magic of cinema and Science Fiction. How spoiled are we that we get a on-screen vision on par with the imagination and heart of Jack Vance's Dying Earth...
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We watched this last night out of morbid curiosity. Considering the real life events, this movie has a after school special vibe becomes a viewing experience of mounting dread.
A ★★★ review of Being Charlie (2015)
Yeah, like many we watched this out of morbid curiosity. It is not one of Reiner's better movies, and has a after school special feeling at times. There are a couple of good performances, a couple of ...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
We watched this last night out of morbid curiosity. Considering the real life events, this movie has a after school special vibe becomes a viewing experience of mounting dread.
The most important release of the year was written in 1930! This space opera was serialized in black newspapers back in the day what makes this book important are the very educational and inspiring essays that come with it. Anyone interested in the history of SF or Afrofuturism MUST have this!
Book Review: The Martian Trilogy: John P. Moore, Amazing Stories, Black Science Fiction, and The Illustrated Feature Section
The Martian Trilogy: John P. Moore, Amazing Stories, Black Science Fiction, and The Illustrated Feature Section 136 pages, Paperback Publi...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The most important release of the year was written in 1930! This space opera was serialized in black newspapers back in the day what makes this book important are the very educational and inspiring essays that come with it. Anyone interested in the history of SF or Afrofuturism MUST have this!
Tomorrow night is when Comet 3I/ATLAS will be closest to earth. Look in the constellation of Leo. I am taking out my binocs.
Above the horizon. Rise: 22:13 | Tran: 4:55 | Set: 11:27
Alt: 44.06° Az: 161.09° Direction: South-South-East
Above the horizon. Rise: 22:13 | Tran: 4:55 | Set: 11:27
Alt: 44.06° Az: 161.09° Direction: South-South-East
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Tomorrow night is when Comet 3I/ATLAS will be closest to earth. Look in the constellation of Leo. I am taking out my binocs.
Above the horizon. Rise: 22:13 | Tran: 4:55 | Set: 11:27
Alt: 44.06° Az: 161.09° Direction: South-South-East
Above the horizon. Rise: 22:13 | Tran: 4:55 | Set: 11:27
Alt: 44.06° Az: 161.09° Direction: South-South-East
New Dickheads Podcast episode is out! Author of Fluid Futures Steven Shaviro joined us to talk about the African cyberpunk film Neptune Frost. Give it a spin a fun talk about SF in general.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
New Dickheads Podcast episode is out! Author of Fluid Futures Steven Shaviro joined us to talk about the African cyberpunk film Neptune Frost. Give it a spin a fun talk about SF in general.
The Martian Trilogy with several of the contributors. In the 1930, James B. Moore published an Afrocentric Space Opera that was serialized in black newspapers with a massive readership. This week will have a different link join the show here:
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December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Martian Trilogy with several of the contributors. In the 1930, James B. Moore published an Afrocentric Space Opera that was serialized in black newspapers with a massive readership. This week will have a different link join the show here:
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hort but passionate review of Greg Cox's Star Trek novel that explores the butterfly effect from The One with the Whales. Excellent three-timeline narrative that comes together perfectly with a sweet ending.
Book Review: Lost to Eternity (Star Trek The Original Series)
So heads up, my reviews between now and next fall will be a little shorter than normal. I am very, very busy planning the 4th internatio...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
hort but passionate review of Greg Cox's Star Trek novel that explores the butterfly effect from The One with the Whales. Excellent three-timeline narrative that comes together perfectly with a sweet ending.
One my favorite novels of the year...Red Star Hustle by @sentencebender.bsky.social. It is half of a Saga Double. If you are looking for a gritty Space opera noir...This is the one.
Book Review: Red Star Hustle by Sam J. Miller (Well half a book review...)
>So heads up, my reviews between now and next fall will be a little shorter than normal. I am very, very busy planning the 4th interna...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
One my favorite novels of the year...Red Star Hustle by @sentencebender.bsky.social. It is half of a Saga Double. If you are looking for a gritty Space opera noir...This is the one.
The Last Night to Kill Nazis made the Paperback Warrior top ten reads of the year. Awesome!
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Episode 125: Top Reads of 2025
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December 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Last Night to Kill Nazis made the Paperback Warrior top ten reads of the year. Awesome!
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Slowly re-watching Craig era Bond. First time since the theater.
A ★★★★★ review of Casino Royale (2006)
Now that it is 20 years, and since they are all Pluto I am kinda sorta re-watching all the Daniel Craig Bonds since I have never watched outside of seeing them in the theater as they came out. Craig's...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Slowly re-watching Craig era Bond. First time since the theater.